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...look, sound, smell of motorized war. They even had casualties: at week's end, twelve dead, about 200 injured. Engines aground and aloft belched more noise and fumes than did the guns (which fired blanks). There were agile, armored scout cars (with four guns, two-way radio). Excellent medium and light tanks (but no such heavy tanks as the Germans' mighty 80-tonners) rumbled up against 3 7 mm. anti-tank guns (which can pierce 2-inch armor at 1,500 yards) and smokepots (devised to blind tank crews in grey, saccharine fog). Some of the tanks...
...light and medium tanks (until last week the Army wanted only 136 more for its wartime force. The Germans use 300-400 tanks in a single division). ∧ 744 anti-tank guns (total wanted...
...widen and hold the breach made, turn it over to ordinary infantry brought up behind. Maximum speed of the whole armored column was that of the break-through tanks: 18 m.p.h. But with each column, for special demolition duty and advance work, went 170-h.p. Diesel-powered medium tanks capable of 85 m.p.h. on roads, 50 m.p.h. across country on their caterpillar tracks. And the Germans also revealed, according to reports, some unheralded 80-ton monsters, rolling fortresses mounting field guns and howitzers...
Such seemingly unconnected phases of science as the forecasting of weather, the fertility of plants, and a machine which will eventually displace coal and gasoline engines are actually linked together through the medium of the sun's rays, according to Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington...
Plans for a medium-size blitzkrieg on Wellesley were formulated last night as the CRIMSON Flotilla held its initial organizational meeting. It was decided that this particular blitzkrieg would be the kind heralded by a violent press attack against the prospective victim; the campaign will begin next week with a flaming denunciation of the mistreatment of Harvard minorities within the Wellesley campus...